Jordan slams HRW report on 'rendition' prisoners

Jordan has blasted as "erroneous" a Human Rights Watch report that the U.S.
spy agency secretly transported at least 14 prisoners to the kingdom between 2001 and 2004.
"The report is erroneous and inaccurate.
It is based on individual allegations, unobjective foundation and wrong conclusions," State Minister for Information Nasser Judeh said on Tuesday.

The U.S.-based rights watchdog said the Central Intelligence Agency secretly transported at least 14 "war on terror" detainees to Jordan between 2001 and 2004, making it the top "rendition" destination at that time.
The prisoners, it said, were sent for interrogation and torture by Jordan's General Intelligence Department.
"While a handful of countries received persons rendered by the United States during this period, no other country is believed to have held as many as Jordan," HRW said.
Judeh said Jordan hopes that "such reports in the future would be based on accurate and objective information, instead of relaying on individual information and take them for granted as facts.
"Judeh said Jordan is a party to the U.N.
Convention against Torture, and that the country's laws criminalize torture."Members of terrorist organization target the kingdom by giving false information to human rights groups, hindering efforts to fight terror," he said.